Discipline Priest Healing Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.0.7
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Discipline Priest in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.7.
Discipline Priest in Mythic+
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.
For assistance with gearing your Discipline Priest for Mythic+ or other content, please look at our gearing guide.
Discipline Priest Mythic+ Rotation
Your primary playstyle in mythic plus will revolve around rotating between
casting Power Word: Radiance followed by a cast sequence of DPS spells to
utilize the
Atonement provided. Single target applications of
atonement are generally not nearly as valuable due to how powerful Radiance is,
but occassional use of
Flash Heal will be utilized, especially with
procs from
Surge of Light.
Renew is not a very strong spell in
Mythic Plus content and should rarely be utilized outside of niche
scenarios.
Your DPS windows following your Radiance casts will often involve a
Shadow Covenant and
Schism window giving you multiple,
significant amplifiers to your offensive spells making your Atonement healing
very significant. This is augmented even further by utilizing
Harsh Discipline often to amplify your
Penance damage
further.When you find targets in execute range,
Shadow Word: Death
becomes a very powerful spell providing significant damage and healing through
Atonement.
The main difference between healing in dungeons versus raids is that a
single cast of Power Word: Radiance covers the entire group. Due to this,
ramping does not exist as it does for raiding. This allows Discipline to be a
much more reactive spec like other healers. We can still benefit from applying
shields/damage reductions early, but it is much easier to heal unexpected
damage comparatively. Due to this, the misconception that Discipline Priest can
not handle mistakes from your group or unexpected damage is largely untrue.
Discipline's healing rotation remains the same for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons. For more information about the Discipline Priest healing rotation, refer to the Rotation page.
Mythic+ Talents for Discipline Priests
Below are the suggested talents for Mythic+. These talents are recommended
for all groups and keys at the current time. There is an alternative talent
build provided on the talents page that you may see referenced or played by
other players focusing on Mindbender and
Inescapable Torment. This build is not as strong healing wise and will
be picked more when you are looking to push your DPS in mythic plus, specially
AoE DPS on
Fortified weeks. We recommend you utilize out default
talent selection to start and only consider the alternative build once you are
very comfortable with the healing aspect of the dungeons first.
For more information on talents as well as alternative talent suggestions for various scenarios, please refer back to the talents page.
Discipline Priest Utility
Discipline Priests have a unique toolkit that allows us to heal while also providing substantial damage. For Mythic+, added damage is a strong factor when considering any healer. Discipline does not need to sacrifice much healing to contribute damage, making us a very enticing choice for pushing Mythic+ keys. In addition to the damage we provide while healing, we also bring several damage reduction cooldowns, some powerful utility, and the ability to dispel enemies. The primary abilities we have that would considered utility spells are the following:
Dispel Magic — This piece of utility allows us to dispel buffs and effects off of enemy targets. This can be valuable in many situations where the buffs on various enemies can make them either significantly more threatening via damage increases or a lot harder to kill via damage reductions.
Improved Purify — Improved Purify alters our default magic dispel to also remove Disease effects. How useful this is heavily relies on the content you are doing, but in situations where there are disease effects being applied to allies, this utility can have immense value.
Mind Control /
Dominate Mind — Both of these abilities grant us to capability to controlling an enemy for a short period of time. In most cases, this does not provide significant value but there have been times in the past where dungeon or raid enemies had extremely powerful spells we could cast by utilizing these abilities. This talent can also be used as a general crowd control ability in many situations as well as niche scenarios to play around mythic plus affixes like Spiteful or Bolstering.
Void Tendrils — This spell provides a root to a small group of enemies, but breaks easily when taking damage. This talent is best used when used on a group of enemies you need to hold in place but are not actively trying to kill.
Shackle Undead — While Undead enemies for Shackle Undead are not the most common thing, this spell is very powerful when it is relevant. Always be on the lookout for Undead enemies to utilizing this crowd control ability.
Mass Dispel — Mass Dispel may be one of our most powerful pieces of utility. The ability to remove magic debuffs from an entire group of allies or from a group of enemies with a single cast is immensely powerful. Many mechanics in both dungeons and raids have been trivialized by this spell over the years and it will likely remain doing so in the future.
Psychic Scream — This gives us the capability to fear a small group of enemies. Giving us the ability to contribute even a little in AoE crowd control scenarios is welcome, despite this spell struggling in other situations due to its five target cap.
Power Word: Fortitude — While not the most interesting piece of utility, being able to provide a stamina buff to the group or raid is very valuable in many situations. Keep this buff active on your group at all times.
Power Infusion — Power Infusion is an immensely powerful spell available to us in our talent tree. This ability allows us to provide a significant haste buff to a single player on a two minute cooldown, most often used on an ally DPS player, especially when considering
Twins of the Sun Priestess.
Gearing for Mythic+
The primary difference you may see between Discipline Priests gearing for Raid content versus Mythic Plus content is that often times, Discipline players may look towards DPS trinkets to push their damage contribution further when they feel like they already have enough healing to handle the required amount for the specific dungeon and key level they are attempting. This is a very personal decision and not something you should default to doing in all cases. When you are just starting out especially, I would recommend sticking to healing or stat proc trinkets first and only shifting to a DPS trinket or two situationally and when you are more comfortable on the specilization.
Keep in mind that the damage from DPS trinkets DOES NOT heal through Atonement, so you are strictly using it for DPS and not healing.
For information on what DPS trinkets can be valuable to include when running Mythic Plus, take a look at our gear page.
Mythic+ Affixes
The way Mythic+ affixes are tiered in Dragonflight has changed quite a bit since their launch in Legion.
There are three weekly affixes and one seasonal affix. The first affix is available instantly at levels two and three, the second affix starts at level four, the third affix is enabled at level seven, and the seasonal affix is at level ten.
Tier One Affixes
Fortified — Non-boss enemies have 20% more health and
inflict up to 30% increased damage. Focus on helping provide damage during
trash packs and try to learn which packs need your attention more than others.
Certain enemies have buffs that need to be dispelled. Having healing
cooldowns ready and available for trash packs will prove beneficial.
Tyrannical — Boss enemies have 40% more health and
inflict up to 15% increased damage. In most dungeon boss encounters, we can focus heavy damage on the boss while still healing our group.
The importance of quickly killing bosses on Tyrannical is high. Discipline
brings quite a few tools to the table to help with that.
Tier Two Affixes
Bolstering — When any non-boss enemy dies, its death cry
empowers nearby allies, increasing their maximum health and damage by 20%. This
has a 30-yard range. There is only so much you can do to help besides switching
targets to help damage higher-health enemies. If you get 1-2 highly bolstered
enemies, be ready to cast
Pain Suppression or even
Rapture /
Power Word: Barrier if it is needed.
Mind Control or
Dominate Mind can occassionally be used to remove an enemy from combat
briefly to avoid them gaining stacks of bolstering.
Raging — Non-boss enemies enrage at 30% health remaining,
dealing 100% increased damage until defeated. Conversely to
Bolstering, you would want to help damage down specific enemies
one at a time to avoid the increased damage done and reduce the healing
required on your team. If, for some reason, the pack is AoE’d down, and you have
several low-health enemies, be ready to use your cooldowns, such as
Pain Suppression,
Rapture, or
Power Word: Barrier to
counter the damage.
Sanguine — When slain, non-boss enemies leave behind a
lingering pool of ichor that heals their allies and damages players. The pools
left on the ground have two specific issues that must be dealt with. Firstly,
and the most obvious, is your group members (specifically melee DPS) taking
damage after killing an enemy; be ready to spot-heal these players quickly.
Secondly, enemies that are casting might stand in these pools, which will heal
them.
Bursting — When slain, non-boss enemies explode, causing
all players to suffer damage over 4 seconds (this effect stacks). With the
ability to dispel this effect (with both
Purify and
Mass Dispel) this affix should only provide a little danger if managed
horribly. Casting
Rapture and
covering the party in
Power Word: Shield will mitigate many
stacks on its own.
Power Word: Barrier is also a powerful tool
in reducing the damage taken to a more manageable level. After you have
utilized these two tools, cast
Shadow Mend on targets that are still at
risk of dying. In difficult situations,
Pain Suppression can be used to
ensure you keep a single target alive.
Spiteful causes an enemy to spawn whenever any mob dies. This
enemy will fixate on a random player and attempt to melee them for massive
damage. They will rapidly lose their health as they stay alive, so throwing
crowd control on them until they die on their own is preferred.
Void Tendrils is an option for AoE crowd controlling a group of
Spitefuls so that they can not reach their target. Another option is utilizing
Dominate Mind to take control of a Spiteful. While the Spiteful is not
very useful under your control, you remove its ability to be a threat as well
as it helps getting yourself out of combat faster to drink if needed after a
pack.
Tier Three Affixes
Volcanic — In combat, enemies periodically cause
gouts of flame to erupt beneath the feet of distant players. This affix is
reasonably easy to avoid as a Discipline Priest due to our ability to heal on the
move. The issue you will run into here is when other players are getting hit
frequently by the ability. Make sure to be ready to top off those who get hit
quickly to avoid extra deaths.
Explosive — While in combat, enemies periodically summon
Explosive Orbs that will detonate if not destroyed. We can help quite a bit
with this affix, given our ability to provide damage. Utilizing
Purge the Wicked is a great way to help kill the orb quickly with an
instant cast ability. It is recommended to keep an eye out for these orbs and
break away from healing to help destroy them if it is needed.
Quaking — Periodically, all players emit a shockwave,
inflicting damage and interrupting nearby allies. This affix can be
annoying due to the spread requirement and interruptions on your casts. Be sure
to
not be casting when this ability finishes to avoid being spell locked. If
players are stacked when this goes off, you may have to follow up with some
quick healing to top off the group.
Grievous — When injured below 90%, players will suffer
increasing damage over time until healed above 90%. Direct heals will remove a
stack of Grievous from the target. Attempt to play as aggressively as possible
to ensure people do not drop within range of Grievous, to begin with. When
multiple players have Grievous simultaneously, try to focus single target heals
on the targets with high stacks to keep the damage manageable.
Penance
can be used to remove multiple stacks with a single cast. Groups with solid
off-heals can provide a significant benefit during Grievous weeks.
Storming — In combat, tornadoes will periodically
spawn and move around their spawn area for approximately 10 seconds before
despawning. Getting hit by one of these tornadoes will damage you and
throw you into the air. There is not much specific advice for this affix
except to avoid getting hit.
Seasonal Affix
The Season 1 affix for mythic plus is Thundering. While in
combat, every so often 4 allies will be affected by a
Mark of Lightning or
Mark of Wind granting a damage and healing
buff. These marks can be cleared by coming into contact with a party member who
has the opposite buff. If you fail to clear the mark before the timer runs out,
you will be stunned and take a significant amount of damage over time.
You can learn more about the Thundering affix or any others in
our full Mythic+ Affix guide below.
Changelog
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 22 Jan. 2023: Updated talent recommendation for patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Removed missed mentions of Shining Force on page.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide is written and maintained by Clandon, Healer in Incarnate as well as staff and theorycrafter at Warcraft Priests (join them on Discord or on their website) and is reviewed by the other staff at Warcraft Priests and notable members of the healing community.
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